Improvement in machines for printing and embellishing lead-pencils



H. B. HORTON.

MACHINES FOR PRINTING AND EMBELLISHING LEAD-PENCILS.

No. 190,589.- Patented May 8,1877.

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UNITED HENRY B. HORTON, OF ITHAOA, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR PRINTING AND EMBELLISHING LEAD-PENCILS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 190,589, dated May 8,1877; application tiled March 22, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY B. HORTON, ofIthaca, Tompkins county, New York, have invented an Improvement inMachinefor Stamping and Embellishing Lead-Pencils, of which thefollowing is a specification:

The object of my invention is to stamp, print, or fix on a lead-pencilany ornamental or useful design, and this by colors, gold-leaf, or otherarticle whereby an ornamented or useful purpose is subserved and thepencil is embellished thereby; and my invention consists of an improvedmachine for accomplishing the same, and whose various parts will beapparent as I will describe them.

Figure l is a sectional elevation of my machine, showing the generalarrangement of the parts thereof. Fig. 2 is a view of the device formoving the leaf-pad to the metallic design on the bed-plate, and Fig. 3isa plan View of my machine.

In Fig. l, a is a hand-crank, by which the whole machine is operated,attached to any one of the wheels that are connected with thepress-roller-as, for example, the wheel b, which is attached to theinking or paste roller shaft b. Tothis shaft the wheel 0 is fast nearthe middle of the machine, and in Fig. 1 is represented by interruptedlines, as if seen through the wheel b. This wheel has cogs on only apart of its periphery, which cogs are represented as having justreleased the rack d, and which rack is retracted by the spring e, by anarch over it, represented as cut away, in part, in order to show thehinge of the rollerframe.- This cross-bar f slides by means of two rods,g, to which "it is fast, and it will benoticed that these parts, namely,the cogwheel, rack, spring, cross-bar, and rods, make a sliding frame,supported at the left by the metallic support-bar h, and at the right bya similar bar-fast to the frame-piece i, and that the use of thissliding frame is to move the roller j, hinged to the cross-bar f. As thecrank 00 is turned, as indicated by the arrow, the cogs on the wheel 0move the rack and its frame to the left, and this moves the roller jover the curved bed-plate 10, which has at its right end the metallicplate 10 on which is the design to be put on the pencils, and thus thecolor, paste, ink, sizing, or other article is put by the roller onthemetallic becLplate k Inthe wheel I), at the left hand, meshes thecog-wheel 1, intermediate between the cogs b and m, and it isrepresented as cutaway on each side to show the bed-plate k and itsmetallic plate 70 and the bed-plate rollerj and this wheel I meshes intothe cylinder-cog m,

which is fast to the cylinder n, and thus the press-cylinder n isturned,which is the second motion of the machine.

The third effect produced is seen in part at p of this figure. 'The pad19 on the shaft q, with wheel 1' on its farther end meshing into a smallintermediate cog, and thus to an interrupted cog on the cylinder at, areparts of this third motion, which is more clearly seen in Fig. 2, whichrepresents the opposite end of the cylinder of the machine. The objectof this pad 19 moving, as by the arrow, is to take the leaf of gold orsilver, or powdered metal, and place it on the metallic bed or plate 70and for this the teeth of the interrupted cogwheelfs are made justsufficient in number and in position to accomplish this at the rightmoment, at each revolution of the cylinder, and in the plan view of themachine in Fig. 3 the cylinder is seen as constructed with a largecavity in it, in order to let the pad p into the bed plate 70. The bed70 has a second curved space, 70?, on which a number of pencils areplaced, and their guidance into the space between the cylinder and itsbed is by the guide bed-piece 10*, fast to the back end of the curve W,or a hopper is arranged there, holding many pencils. At each revolutionof the cylinder one pencil is, by hand, or by the automatic action ofthe machinery, fed on the lower curve of the bed k, and thus thecylinder n rolls it forward, and over the metallic bed-plate 70 and itreceives the stamp, print, color, or gold-leaf, or other ornamentationor embellishment of the design on the metallic bed-plate 70 as has beensaid.

An elastic pressure is given to thecylinder n by the use of india-rubbersheets, in two places, using one or both, as further experience may showis desirable. First, on the cylinder a a piece of sheet-rubber isattached, of just sufficient breadth to roll a pencil over the lowercurve of the bed 70 and its metallic design plate 70 as seen at at. Andthis rubber sheet subserves two useful purposes: first, its lower edge,as it comes round, acts as a feed of the pencils, in between thecylinder and bed, automatically and, second, it insures an elasticpressure on the design-plate 70 And, as other methods of feeding in thepencils are contemplated by me, I have also introduced sheet-rubberbetween the plate 70 and bed 70, as will be seen in Fig. 1. This sheetis for the elastic pressure just spoken of, for the purpose of renderingmore certain the embellishment of the pencils. It is also apparent thatthe same arrangement of bed-roller,

rubber-sheets, and other parts can be made,

be the bed straight instead of curved; further, that at p Fig. 3, on theshaft q, is a spring whose use is to retract the pad 19 when releasedfrom the cogs of the wheel S, Fig. 2; and, lastly, Fig. 4 represents apencil embellished by a scale of inches and parts of inches,

U gold" or silver leaf or pulverized metal having been used in themachine for such purpose, and in the manner described.

The advantages and uses of my invention,

are apparent to those skilled in the art to which it appertains.

I claim- 1. In a machine for embossing and ornamenting lead-pencils, thecombination of a pressing-surface with a raised design orprinting-surface, whereby the pencil is caused to move, or is rolledbetween the printing and pressing surfaces, by the action or movement ofthe parts, and the design imparted or printed thereon, substantially asdescribed.

2. In a machine for embossing or ornamenting lead-pencils, the pressingcylinder or surface n, substantially as and for the purposes described.1

3. In combination with the pressing cylinder or surface n, the bed-plate70, substantially as and for the purposes described.

4. In combination with the pressing-cylinder or surface 11., thedesign-plate k substantially as and for the purposes described.

5. The combination, in a machine for embossing and ornamenting leadpencils, of pressing surface n, bed-plate k, and designplate 70 as andfor the purposes described.

6. In combination with the presser a and design W, the leaf-applyingpad/p substantially as and for the purposes described.

7. The combination, in a machine for embossing and ornamentinglead-pencils, ofpressing-snrt'aee n, bed-plate k, design-plate I0 andsuitable leaf-applying mechanism 19 substantially as and for thepurposes described.

8. In combination with the leaf-applying mechanism or pad 19 therollerj, rack d, and spring 0, whereby the sizingor gum and leaf orembellishing materials are automatically applied to the design-plate,substantially as I and for the purposes described.

9. The combination, in. a machine for embossing and ornamentin glead-pencils, of pressing-surface n, design-plate 70 gum-applyingmechanismj d, leaf-applying mechanism 19 p, and suitable drivingmechanism 0 b 11", all constructed, arranged, and adapted to operate asand for the purposes described.

HENRY B. HORTON. Witnesses:

S. J. PARKER, CHAS. G. DAY.

